{"id":224879,"date":"2026-02-24T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-congress-for-democratic-change-alleges-plot-to-bar-former-president-weah-from-2029-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:33:55","slug":"liberia-congress-for-democratic-change-alleges-plot-to-bar-former-president-weah-from-2029-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-congress-for-democratic-change-alleges-plot-to-bar-former-president-weah-from-2029-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Congress for Democratic Change Alleges Plot to Bar Former President Weah From 2029 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 In a statement posted on his social media page, Koijee claimed that a proposed amendment to Title 2 of Liberia&#8217;s Criminal Procedure Law is being used as a political tool to target the former president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Koijee described the proposed amendment &#8212; reportedly introduced under the banner of anti-corruption reform &#8212; as &#8220;criminal and dangerous,&#8221; alleging that it was submitted to the National Legislature without public transparency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">According to him, the bill seeks to remove meaningful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 In a statement posted on his social media page, Koijee claimed that a proposed amendment to Title 2 of Liberia&#8217;s Criminal Procedure Law is being used as a political tool to target the former president. Koijee described the proposed amendment &#8212; reportedly introduced under the banner of anti-corruption reform &#8212; as &#8220;criminal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,20138,14310,7796,6634,6404,821,4712,1107,257,4365,2450,254,12734],"class_list":["post-224879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-bar","tag-change","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-elections","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-plot","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weah"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}